Wordle Answer for May 10, 2025
Players who opened Wordle on May 10, 2025 were trying to land on YEAST. We've kept the day's hints around so you can revisit them — or use the archive to settle a debate about a tricky past puzzle.
The answer
YEAST
What yeast means
A single-celled fungus used to make bread rise and to ferment sugars into alcohol in brewing and winemaking.
Where the word comes from
Yeast comes from Old English "gist," which traces back through Proto-Germanic "jestu-" to an Indo-European root meaning "to boil" or "to ferment." The sense of a foaming or bubbling substance used in baking and brewing developed naturally from this root, since yeast visibly froths and bubbles during fermentation.
Hints for May 10, 2025
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Synonyms of yeast
- barm
- beer
- leaven
- leavening
- powder
- saccharomyces
- mushroom
- fungal
Used in a sentence
The baker added _____ to the dough so it would rise properly in the oven.
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